Catshanghai

Our first baby is due in May.  Should our baby have British, Chinese or dual nationality?
Ideally we would like our first born child to have dual British and Chinese nationality. This would make it easy to travel and live in Europe or China without any additional visas.
I’ve just telephoned the British Consulate in Shanghai who [...]

These uncertain economic times have led me to think about how I spend my money on a number of discretionary items including coffee. It seems that drinking coffee is a barometer of the economic climate in terms of confidence and people’s spending habits.
A large cup of coffee at an elegant coffee shop like Starbucks or [...]

This is a perfect video for living in Shanghai. It’s a full episode of Fawlty Towers.

It captures the communication problems, the sense of chaos, the flexible attitudes to copyright in terms of vintage BBC tv shows and web service design. America does Youtube. China does Youku
Enjoy. Tell me if it plays in the UK. There [...]

My exile from Facebook has ended, although I have never spent too much time hanging out in this network.
Sometime before Christmas I tried to add a few friends from the mobile Facebook site using my crappy HTC Tytn Windows Mobile cellphone, but Facebook defaults to ‘add all’. Like an idiot, I added hundreds of students [...]

We decided to spend New Year’s Day at Sanlin Forest Park near Fudan University.
The taxi driver told us it would cost 80 RMB to go there so he suggested Binjiang Forest Park in Gao Qiao, Pudong. It cost us 100 RMB to get to Binjiang, but it was worth the journey. We enjoyed glorious cold [...]